Lobster for Breakfast

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Lobster for Breakfast
Aragosta a colazione.jpg
Directed by Giorgio Capitani
Written byLaura Toscano
Franco Marotta
Produced byEros Lanfranconi
Starring Enrico Montesano
Claude Brasseur
CinematographyCarlo Carlini
Edited by Antonio Siciliano
Music by Piero Umiliani
Release date
  • 1979 (1979)
CountryItaly
Language Italian

Aragosta a colazione (internationally released as Lobster for Breakfast) is a 1979 Italian comedy film directed by Giorgio Capitani. [1]

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For his performance in this film and in Il ladrone , Enrico Montesano was awarded with a Special David di Donatello. [2]

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References

  1. R. Fegatelli (3 November 1979). "Aragosta a colazione". La Stampa.
  2. Enrico Lancia (1998). I premi del cinema. Gremese Editore, 1998. ISBN   8877422211.